[Isiah Thomas\Racial Justice]
Thomas: “We’ve been waiting for centuries now for us to have this conversation about the oppressive … system that Blacks are forced to live under in this country.”
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Racial injustice
Nick Saban joins BLM student-athlete protest march in Alabama
[Nick Saban]
Nick Saban: “This is something that the team decided to do together as a team, so I’m very proud and supportive of what they are trying to say, and in a peaceful and intelligent way. I’m very pleased to be here today.”
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DNC Chair on Wisconsin Police Shooting: “When Will it End?”
[Jacob Blake\DNC Chair Tom Perez]
DNC Chair Perez: “A bullet in the back. A knee on the neck. When will it end? Yet again, our nation is hurting. Yet again, Black communities are hurting. Our hearts go out to Jacob Blake and his family as we pray for his recovery.”
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Major Union, AFSCME, endorses Police Reforms at 44th Convention
[AFSCME Police Reform]
AFSCME: “We look forward to working with leaders and employers across the country to implement these reforms to heal our communities, prevent violence against Black Americans.”
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Jamaal Bowman to Speak at Netroots Nation 2020 Conference
[Netroots Nation’s 2020 Conference]
The keynote panelists will address the need for urgency in the progressive movement in this moment of reckoning with racial injustice, a global pandemic, and economic devastation.
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Formerly Homeless Activist Beats 20-year Incumbent in Missouri Primary
[Cori Bush]
Bush: “They counted us out. They called me – I’m just the protester, I’m just the activist with no name, no title and no real money. That’s all they said that I was. But St. Louis showed up today.”
Photo: Twitter
CARICOM on Abolition Anniversary, Reparations, Walter Rodney
[CARICOM]
Gov. Gonsalves: “I urge all in CARICOM to focus on reparations for the enslavement of Africans on Emancipation Day, 2020. In our region, and elsewhere…our governments must ramp up the political, diplomatic, and international legal struggle for reparations.”
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Martinique Protesters Destroy Colonial Statues on Caribbean Island
[Martinique\Statue of Empress Josephine]
Weekly Journal: “Protesters with sledgehammers first hacked at the stone base of the statue of Empress Josephine, which was already missing its head…they attached cords to it, brought it crashing down and stamped and jumped on it.”
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Adam Wainwright: Black Lives Matter to Me
[Adam Wainwright]
Wainwright: “People will come to me and say the reason you’re the way you are is because you have a Black son now. But I’m still the same amount of human as I was yesterday. And I still have the same love today for my fellow brother that I did yesterday.”
Photo: YouTube
Major League Soccer Players Launch Season with Silent Protest
[Major League Soccer\Black Lives Matter]
Tampa Bay Times: “Players wore black T-shirts, black gloves and black face masks emblazoned with Black Lives Matter. The shirts had varying slogans that included Black And Proud, Silence Is Violence and Black All The Time.”
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